I finally installed our new EV charging station. Pretty cool, you can control how many amps you want.

We are at peak solar production right now. With a minor current adjustment we’re charging @Jillianmarisa’s car on pure sunshine, carrying the home’s base load, and still exporting ~500 watts to the grid. Too dang cool! Weeeeeee!

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@User47

It's fantastic, isn't it?

Mine has 3 modes:

Solar. Charge rate varies with sunshine. Any the house isn't using goes to the EV. Excess to the battery or sold to the grid if the battery's full. My chosen default.

Solar + battery. Constant charge. Not enough sun, battery tops it up. More sun than the charger uses? To the battery or grid. Only if I need a faster charge.

Grid. Solar + grid. Might include battery 🤷‍♂️. Constant charge. Never used.

Solar car! 😁

@Jillianmarisa

@thefathippy @Jillianmarisa oh man I love the idea of having it be variable.

@User47 @thefathippy @Jillianmarisa same 🙂

I have no house battery, so mine is very simple: all excess goes to the car; when the car stops charging it goes to the grid.

I deliberately only charge to 80% overnight to keep some spare 'solar store' capacity for the daytime.

I really want V2G but my car is too cheap to have this feature 🤣 so I can only use the solar charge by driving it... it's ok.